Account of an expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains
Subtitle: performed in the years 1819 and '20, by order of the Hon. J.C. Calhoun, Sec'y of War, under the command of Major Stephen H. Long : from the notes of Major Long, Mr. T. Say, and other gentlemen of the exploring party
By: compiled by Edwin James, botanist and geologist for the expedition
Contributors: Say, Thomas, 1787-1834; Long, Stephen H. (Stephen Harriman), 1784-1864; Seymour, Samuel, active 1797-1822; Peale, Titian Ramsay, 1799-1885; Childs, Cephas Grier, 1793-1871; Lawson, Alexander, 1773-1846; Kearny, Francis, 1785-1837; Hay, William; Young & Delleker
Series: Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part I; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part I
Publisher: H.C. Carey and I. Lea
Published: 1822
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Subjects: Indians of North America; Glossaries, vocabularies; Languages; Discovery and exploration; Description and travel; Stephen H. Long Expedition to the Rocky Mountains (1819-1820)
Notes: The atlas, dated 1822, has title: "Account of an expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains performed in the years 1819-20, by order of the Honourable John C. Calhoun Secretary of War. Maps and plates."

The maps are drawn by S.H. Long and engraved by Young & Delliker. The signed plates are engraved by C.G. Childs, Alexander, F. Kearny, and W. Hay after S. Seymour, Lawson, and T.R. Peale. One plate is hand-colored.

"Astronomical and meteorological records, and vocabularies of Indian languages, taken on the expedition for exploring the Mississippi and its western waters, under the command of Major S.H. Long, of the United States' topographical engineers, in 1819 and 1820"--Lxxxviii p. at end of v. 2, with separate title page, dated 1822.

Reproduction of the original from the Library of Congress.

Atlas: [5] p., [11] leaves of plates (some fold.) : ill., maps.